CARAVAGGIO (b. 1571, Caravaggio, d. 1610, Porto Ercole) The Inspiration of Saint Matthew 1602 Oil on canvas, 292 x 186 cm Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome In 1565 the French Monsignor Matteo Contarelli acquired a chapel in San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, but when he died twenty years later it had not yet been decorated. The executor of his will, Virgilio Crescenzi, and later his son, Giacomo, undertook the task. The decorative scheme called for a statue of St Matthew and the Angel, commissioned first to Gerolamo Muziano, and then to the Flemish sculptor Cobaert, for the high a
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CARAVAGGIO (b. 1571, Caravaggio, d. 1610, Porto Ercole) The Inspiration of Saint Matthew 1602 Oil on canvas, 292 x 186 cm Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome In 1565 the French Monsignor Matteo Contarelli acquired a chapel in San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, but when he died twenty years later it had not yet been decorated. The executor of his will, Virgilio Crescenzi, and later his son, Giacomo, undertook the task. The decorative scheme called for a statue of St Matthew and the Angel, commissioned first to Gerolamo Muziano, and then to the Flemish sculptor Cobaert, for the high a